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They Had A Doctor Who Fest In Lombard

With Special Guest Inspector Spacetime

The annual convention billed as the premier Doctor Who event in the Midwest took place over the weekend.
(From the Elgin Courier-News preview: “For the uninitiated, Doctor Who involves the exploits of the titular character, a time lord from another world who takes human companions on adventures through history using the TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimension in Space), a space ship of sorts that looks like an English police box on the outside. The British sci-fi series originally ran from 1963 until 1989. There was a made-for-TV movie in 1996. The series returned to the BBC in 2005, and now it is more popular than ever.”)
Let’s take a look.
1. “I only travel first class . . . ”

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Posted on November 29, 2011

Family Ties Mom At Chicago Pro-Choice Event

Out As A Lesbian; Also Had An Abortion

“Local bipartisan pro-choice political action committee Personal PAC hosted its 18th annual luncheon Nov. 17 at the Hilton Chicago,” Windy City Times reported last week. “Events began with a VIP reception featuring speaker and out actress Meredith Baxter.”
In an interview that WCT’s Jerry Nunn, Baxter revealed a personal link to the cause:
“To tell the truth, I had an abortion. I didn’t write about that [in her book] because it was just another sad aspect to my relationship with David [Birney]. I had to. It was actually a therapeutic abortion. It just happened to come a couple of years after Roe v. Wade was signed as a law. It was certainly legal. It had to happen and that was fine. It was a horrible time in our lives. It was two years into our marriage. I was desperately unhappy. I already had three children and thought I cannot do this again. I thought I was going to lose my mind if I had this other child. I wasn’t ready for a fourth. I think it was before I did Family.”

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Posted on November 28, 2011

City Honors Bill Kurtis For His Service To Official Sources

By Steve Rhodes

Monday was Bill Kurtis Day in Chicago. I don’t see what’s so great about Bill Kurtis; just the other day he was chatting on the air with “reporter” Jay Levine and co-anchor Walter Jacobson about how Rahm Emanuel’s budget was a “win” for the people of Chicago. That’s great journalism?
Time and again I’ve seen this kind of nonsense coming from the unfrozen dynamic duo manning the Channel 2 news desk. It’s sickening, but then again this is a town with a journalism association that recently honored Stella Foster with a lifetime achievement award.
Kurtis, of course, is really a spokesman for Corporate America and a shill for pols staging groundbreakings, not a journalist.
As I wrote in July 2010, Kurtis has been City Hall’s official emcee for years
No wonder they gave him a day.

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Posted on November 9, 2011

The American Autumn On RT

By RT America

When it was an Arab Spring they were heroes. When an American Autumn came they were mocked and misrepresented on other channels. But not here. Watch American Autumn on RT.

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Posted on November 4, 2011